{"id":7116,"date":"2021-02-01T04:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/01\/sensex-nifty-open-higher-ahead-of-budget\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:23:06","slug":"sensex-nifty-open-higher-ahead-of-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/02\/01\/sensex-nifty-open-higher-ahead-of-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensex, Nifty Open Higher Ahead Of Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Indian shares opened on a firm note Monday ahead of the Union Budget 2021, which will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark S&amp;P BSE Sensex rose 208 points, or half a percent, to 46,494 in early trade, while the broader NSE Nifty index was up 40 points, or 0.3 percent, at 13,674.<\/p>\n<p>IDFC First Bank slumped 6 percent after it reported a net profit of Rs. 130 crore for the third quarter ended December.<\/p>\n<p>Tata Motors fell 2 percent despite reporting stellar Q3 FY21 results.<\/p>\n<p>L&amp;T Finance Holdings dropped 1.2 percent on fund raising reports. <\/p>\n<p>Indian Oil Corporation advanced 1.5 percent after its December quarter net profit more than doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Private sector lender ICICI Bank surged 4.5 percent after reporting 19 percent jump in its December quarter profit. <\/p>\n<p>Vedanta gained 1 percent after its Q3 profit jumped 59 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Tech Mahindra lost 4 percent despite reporting a 14.3 percent rise in its December quarter net profit. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Sensex, Nifty Open Higher Ahead Of Budget<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-02-01 04:23:06<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares opened on a firm note Monday ahead of the Union Budget 2021, which will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament later in the day&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1535139262971-c51845709a48?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1950&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asian-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}